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r e d h y dro gen on e About a year ago, the LG G5 arrived with its snap-on enhancement modules. Shortly after, Motorola brought its Moto Mods to market (check out our pocket guide this issue), and though it might turn out to be a bit of a fad, the upgradeable handset trend is certainly catching on. The RED Hydrogen One is the latest in this line. Only, unlike LG or Motorola, RED doesn’t specialise in phones at all; its strengths lie in cinematography, with its RED cameras to thank for the picture behind a sizeable chunk of movies (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, for example). Its new phone, though not a looker, has some unique entertainment-focused features that seem to tally with its movie-shooting skills. Its handset will come with a holographic 5.7-inch display, capable of viewing its content to make the most of the 4D display, as well as 3D movies, and VR games. And there won’t be any glasses needed, either. Then there are the modules, which you snap onto the phone. At present, RED has shown off a bigger lens attachment, for shooting higher-quality movies and photos, and hinted at a module that will be able to capture holographic images. Phones are increasingly becoming a one-stop-shop device, and the Hydrogen One could take this jack-of-all-trades capability to the next level. Price From $1195 (about £930) Available 2017 URL red.com Get 3 issues of T3 for just £6! See p74
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Meet the team M eet our advertising team
Matt Bolton
Nick Odantzis
Claire Davies
Editor As the owner of an ageing iMac, Matt’s been most interested in the Surface Studio (p102) this issue. At least, until he dropped the Surface Dial on it, and we took it away from him.
DEPUTY Editor Nick spent a week on our epic challenge of making it from Land’s End to John O’Groats (p76) in an electric car, then another week recovering from eating that many roadside café sarnies.
Associate Editor Claire’s epic challenge of her own this issue was putting together our 101 Gadgets You Can’t Live Without list (p46). How epic? Her original long-list had nearly 400 products on it…
Jo Gulliver
Michelle McLaren
Kimberley Ballard
Senior Art editor Jo got some new gesturecontrolled headphones, so now everyone’s distracted by the occasional flailing arm during the day. But they sound good, so she says this is firmly “your problem.”
ART editor Michelle ran our photo shoots for the 101 Gadgets feature, which has meant a lot of heavy lifting. She has requested we feature some kind of forklift in all similar future lists.
Production editor Kimberley’s been loving the PS4 remake of Crash Bandicoot. If we’re bringing back stuff from that era, she’d also like more Buffy, Empire Records and Jagged Little Pill, thanks.
Andrew Westbrook
Dan Grabham
Duncan Bell
Operations editor Andy’s been pulled in by our 4K HDR projectors State of the Art test (p92). He also works for our pals on Total Film, so has tried to make the case for expensing one. It’s not going very well.
Editor, t3.com We had our judging day for the T3 Awards this month (p86), which Dan bravely led, trying to wrangle the conflicting opinions of nine tech journos into a coherent whole. No mean feat…
Lifestyle Editor, t3.com Duncan’s been preparing for a trip to the 158,000m2 IFA tech show in Berlin by ramping up his fitness and learning the compound German word for ‘I haven’t seen sunlight in two days.’
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Editor’s letter I just installed a Nest Protect at my house for the first time, and already I’m kicking myself for waiting this long to get one.
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Within a couple of days, my culinary skills were producing their standard plumes of thick smoke, but instead of being rewarded with a noise to split the earth and summon the ancient horrors beneath, I just got a polite woman in the Protect warning me that there was smoke, and if I didn’t do anything about it, noise would happen. With a single button press, I silenced the Protect, then opened the kitchen window and carried on, no heart attack required. Then I got a lovely reassuring notification, “There was smoke in the living room, but it’s cleared now.” Why the hell was I putting up with the dumb version in the past? That’s the kind of things our 101 Gadgets You Can’t Live Without feature is all about (though it’s mostly meant less literally than when talking about a smoke alarm) – products that you just can’t go back from once you’ve tried them. If you’re into electric cars, be sure to read Nick’s feature on p76 about when we sent him to drive the famous Land’s End to John O’Groats route to see if it’s a smooth journey in the longer-range Tesla. The only predictable thing was that the journey would be unpredictable. It’s a great read – I hope you enjoy it and the rest of the issue!
Matt Bolton, Editor matthew.bolton@futurenet.com Tweet me @matthewbbolton
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Key contributors Alex Cox, gadget man
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Steve May, AV expert
Alex is a veteran of tech magazines over the years, and has tried just about every gadget trend going. This issue, he added his expertise to our 101 Gadgets You Can’t Live Without list (p46).
Ben bosses the testing labs for our colleagues on Digital Camera magazine and is a big computing fan, so took on our Microsoft Surface Studio review (p102) to judge its creative and techy cred.
There’s no screen too big or too sharp for our video maestro Steve, so we set him to work judging the new set of affordable 4K home projectors (p92) as well as the latest UHD Blu-ray players (p106).
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Shopping Before you start adding to your ultimate wishlist from our 101 gadgets feature, take a look at what amazing tech we’ve got on offer in our Shopping pages.
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TALKING TECH Our man in the know, Duncan Bell, explores the virtues of VR (if, in his opinion, there are any) and finds out what the future holds for the interactive tech sector
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